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In a sad and an irreparable loss to the Tibetan Medical tradition, Dr. Lobsang Wangyal la, the senior personal physician to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, breathed his last at around 7 PM yesterday.

An international coalition of Human Rights and environment groups today called on Australian mining company, Sino Gold Ltd, to cease all exploration in Tibet until Tibetans are in a position to freely express their wishes about the use of their resources.

Three Australian climbers were rescued by helicopter Monday from a mountain in Tibet, but the body of their leader, who died of altitude sickness, was left behind, Australian officials said.

Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama has declined an invitation from the Taiwanese President to visit the island to avoid damaging relations with China, an official said on Monday.

China has pledged to do what it can to assist in the rescue of three Australian climbers trapped after an accident on one of the world's highest peaks in Tibet, state press reported.

This undated photo shows a model of the Zhikong hydropower station to the northeast of Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. The State Council of China authorized to build the Zhikong hydropower station project in October, 2002, with an installed capacity of 100,000 kwh and an aggregate storage capacity of 225 million steres. After five years' scheduled construction and with a total investment of 1.337 billion yuan, the hydropower station will generate 407 million kwh annually. It is expected that the first unit will generate electricity in December 2006.

A ceremony was held Sunday in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region to launch the Zhigung Hydro-electric Plant Project, the biggest of its kind in the region.

The Dalai Lama, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, is scheduled to visit Massachusetts for the first time in five years this September. The Dalai Lama is scheduled to bless a new Buddhist temple in Medford that has become a center for the

An early resolution of Sino-Indian differences on Sikkim could lend the much-needed political substance for the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee's long-awaited visit to China, sources here say.